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Hey, I'm Gina from Baroness.
>> And I'm Chase from Fender.
>> Today we're checking out the Engager Boost.
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>> The Engager Boost is our clean boost pedal with up to 20 dB of clean boost here
on the volume, with a 3-Band EQ, with a switchable 2.0 mid-range frequency toggle.
The Engager is housed in anodized aluminum and has the backlit LED knobs,
a Fender Amp Jewel LED, and the magnetic latching battery door, so
you can change batteries on the fly pretty quickly.
This pedal has a ton of different features that you can use to sculpt the tone that
you're looking to achieve with different guitars and amps,
with different variations of gain and delay and reverb.
And it's basically our Swiss army knife pedal, really.
>> Totally.
>> It's switchable, buffered at true bypass via a toggle switch on the back.
And then you have the 3-Band EQ with up to 12 dB of booster cut on
each frequency band.
And then, in the upper position in the frequency toggle, your mid-range
control is 800 hertz, and in the lower toggle there it is at 400 hertz.
So you can really find a nice sweet spot for your mid-range to boost or cut.
So how have you used boost pedals like this in your playing,
whether it's in studio or live and in different settings?
>> I think one of the coolest ways to use a boost pedal like this
is kind of feeding into something like a fuzz to better shape your fuzz tone.
>> Yeah, so with this I've seen it in practice where you can have it at
the front of your chain and kind of use that to set your clean platform.
You can use it, like you said, before something with gain, whether it's fuzz or
overdrive or distortion,
to kind of push the input on whatever that pedal it to get more saturation.
You can use it after that and use it a clean boost to just boost that volume up.
You can use it as a final touch of EQ at the end of your chain,
right before your guitar signal hits your amp.
You can use it to boost an amp that's already breaking up, and boost
the high end and mid-range frequencies to pop through the mix a little bit more.
There's a lot of flexibility in this pedal.
When each of the frequency bands are set, basically,
in the noon position, your EQ is flat.
So you can get up to 20 dB of just totally clean, that's your guitar
signal just pushing harder through whatever your signal chain is.
So an application that I think works really well for this, especially with
a guitar like this, is you can use the EQ to shape the tonality of your pickup.
So if you're in the neck position on a Strat, and
you want to reduce some of the high-end and brightness, maybe,
of what you're getting out of your single coil pickups, if you play it,
I can roll the treble back and you can see how that sounds.
>> Cool.
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>> And then if you've got this guitar with the selector switch on your humbucker
pickup on the bridge, you can use it to add a little sparkle, add some mid-range,
if you're going to use the mid-range toggle.
Usually at like the 400 hertz it helps kind of bring out some of
that throaty mid-range stuff on a humbucking pickup in that position.
And you could also use the base control to lower some of that rumbly low end.
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Thanks for checking out the Engager Booster with us and
stay tuned for more videos.
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